Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Commemorated today
- Sash of the Theotokos
What is known
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Hieromartyr Cyprian, bishop of Carthage (258)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. 258 life on this site
The life we have written
Hieromartyr Cyprian of Carthage
A wealthy rhetorician became a Christian late, a bishop almost immediately, and a martyr after learning to hold together discipline, repentance, mercy, and the visible unity of the Church.
- Era
- Third century, c. 210–258
- Region
- Carthage in Roman North Africa
- Category
- Hierarch, theologian, pastor, and martyr
- Feast
- August 31
- St Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (471)Hierarch · d. 471
What is known
A hierarch is a bishop — including patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops. The Church commemorates bishops in this rank whether they are remembered chiefly for teaching, for governing, or for holding a see through a difficult century.
The title places them at Constantinople. The year given is 471.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne (651)d. 651
What is known
The title places them at Lindisfarne. The year given is 651.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Eanswythe, Abbess of FolkestoneMonastic
What is known
A monastic — the calendar usually says venerable — lived under vows: a monk, nun, hermit, abbot or abbess. This is the largest single group in the Menaion, and for most of them the monastery is the whole of what is recorded.
The title places them at Folkestone.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Cuthburga the Queen, Abbess of WimborneMonastic
What is known
A monastic — the calendar usually says venerable — lived under vows: a monk, nun, hermit, abbot or abbess. This is the largest single group in the Menaion, and for most of them the monastery is the whole of what is recorded.
The title places them at Wimborne. Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
Appointed readings
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on August 31 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on September 13 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.